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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied)

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied)
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Date 2012-09-28 11:44 -0700
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"B.Person" <bruce.person@gmail.com> writes:
> Posted 16 hours ago.  Time to get into the ARM world; IMHO.

I looked at that.  It looked interesting at first, but meh.

I don't think they claimed to have ARM cores on the array chip.  They
are some unidentified 32-bit risc architecture, maybe ARM, maybe not.
(There is an architecture manual but I didn't look at it).  The board
does have an ARM running Linux and you might be thinking of that.  The
array chip is a peripheral to the ARM chip, operating as a coprocesssor
or accelerator.  Basically you are looking at a Raspberry Pi with an
external, programmable GPU.  

The array chip has limited memory and i/o bandwidth, the usual
bottleneck of these things.  Its total computational performance is
nowhere near that of a desktop GPU, though of course its power
consumption is much lower, making it perhaps of interest for mobile
products.  And instead of SIMD, it's a bunch of semi-independent
processors sort of like the recently announced Xeon Phi.  For the
16-core chip there is 0.5MB of on-chip NUMA ram, I guess 32k "owned" by
each core, with lower speed access possible from other cores. 

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Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) "B.Person" <bruce.person@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 07:16 -0700
  Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 10:44 -0700
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    Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 11:42 -0700
  Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2012-09-28 11:39 -0700
  Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-28 11:44 -0700
  Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-09-29 14:55 -0400
    Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-29 12:13 -0700
      Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-09-29 23:13 +0200
        Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-29 17:30 -0700
          Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-09-29 17:59 -1000
            Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-09-30 13:50 +0000
              Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-10-02 23:53 +1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201210.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-10-03 19:10 +0200
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-03 07:41 -1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. vandys@vsta.org - 2012-10-03 18:06 +0000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-03 20:22 +0200
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 08:39 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-04 07:51 -1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 14:05 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-04 09:26 -1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 19:23 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. vandys@vsta.org - 2012-10-05 00:41 +0000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-05 15:43 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. vandys@vsta.org - 2012-10-05 21:14 +0000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-07 17:58 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-10-04 13:40 +1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-03 21:34 -1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-10-04 09:49 +0000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-10-10 00:10 +1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-09 16:42 +0200
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 14:01 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-09 11:43 -0700
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-09 09:02 -1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 15:34 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-09 09:53 -1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 16:06 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-09 17:00 -1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-10 20:54 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-11 19:26 -1000
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-12 23:52 -0400
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                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 15:06 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-10 01:29 +0200
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 15:31 -0400
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-09 14:14 -0700
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-09 21:37 +0200
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-09 15:26 -0700
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-10 02:21 +0200
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-09 19:40 -0700
                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-10-04 17:07 -0400
        Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-09-29 22:12 -0400
          Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-09-29 18:38 -1000
          Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-29 23:38 -0700
            Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2012-09-30 11:47 -0700
            Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 00:19 -0400
              Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-02 16:06 +0200
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                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-06 03:14 +0200
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              Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-01 16:57 +0200
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                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-03 02:48 +0200
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                Re: Your next supercomputer!  Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip.  (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-02 19:23 -0700
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